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Follow the approaching storm with meteorologist Dave Eichorn

Nick Feeley gets airborne on his snowboard at Thornden Park on Sunday. He and friends Brandon Strouse and Tyler Rhinehart took their boards and constructed some jumps along the steps near the amphitheater after the fresh snow that had fallen.
(Photo by Dennis Nett, The Post-Standard)

The Syracuse area will be under a winter storm warning from 2 p.m. today to 1 p.m. Thursday as a system swinging up from the Southeast bears down on the region.

Meteorologist Dave Eichorn will be available periodically beginning at about 7 p.m. to answer your questions in our live Q&A below.

He forecasts this will likely be a productive storm but with comparatively low impact because it is Christmas week with schools out and fewer folks commuting. He says the worst part of the storm will be overnight.

He says snow will begin in Syracuse around 7 to 8 p.m., with heavy snow lasting for four to five hours. Lighter precipitation will begin after 2 to 3 a.m., which should continue well into Thursday. He said the Syracuse region has about a 40 percent chance of the snow mixing with or becoming all sleet for about four to five hours from 3 to 8 a.m., which will play havoc with snow totals.

Dave will participate in the live Q&A below beginning at about 7 p.m. and provide periodic updates through Thursday morning.

Submit your questions at the bottom of the Q&A window below, and Dave will check in throughout the course of the storm as often as possible to answer as many as he can. Dave will also post the times when he will be available and on syracuse.com answering questions, so you can plan to submit your questions and get answers live.

Eichorn, who was a meteorologist at WSYR-TV (Channel 9) for about 20 years, teaches meteorology and environmental meteorology at State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Onondaga Community College and State University College at Oswego. At ESF, he is at work on his Ph.D. on severe lake-effect.